“… how will I know they are being honest? That they really read?” It seems my reluctant readers through all my classes and my struggling readers in my co-taught classes will go through the motions as if reading… but struggle
Reading Conferences… I found a book I like!
Karen is one of my more able middle school readers, however she is often unengaged in reading a book during the Monitored Reading (independent reading time) in our language arts period. One day in the hall before class, she asks
Modeling independent reading habits – learning from student “co-researchers”
During my grad school-required classroom action research, I posed the question: How to engage middle school students in independent reading? Through reading conferences, journal writing, and classroom discussion, I begin to explore what students do to choose a book for
Individual survey on strategies to choose a book
choosing a book personal survey I begin by asking my language arts class to journal about, “What do you do during SSR?” (our in-class Self-Selected Reading time) Many of the brief written responses are expected — they read, talk quietly